Maximum safety and fairness
Affected by the epidemic, the college entrance examination was postponed for one month, adjusted according to local conditions
● The extension of the college entrance examination is on the one hand to maximize the protection of educational equity, and more importantly to prevent and control the epidemic situation and ensure the safety and health of candidates
● The postponement of college entrance examination will have a certain impact on schools and students, and it needs to be dealt with correctly. For schools, it is necessary to select the learning content more carefully, arrange the learning time more compactly and effectively, and carry out teaching guidance in a more targeted manner; for students, it is necessary to exert more subjective initiative, overcome anxiety, and optimize learning methods
● Schools in various places can choose appropriate methods such as online re-examination under the conditions of taking effective protective measures and ensuring the health of teachers and students according to local conditions, organizing the re-examination and admission work in a timely manner, and selecting the epidemic for postgraduate selection To minimize the impact
□ Reporter Du Xiao
□ Huang Jiayu, an intern in this newspaper
On April 27th, 254 schools in Beijing ushered in the opening of the third year of high school, and nearly 50,000 students in the third year of high school in Beijing returned to the campus. However, their college entrance examination time was delayed by one month.
Affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the college entrance examination was postponed.
On March 31, the Ministry of Education announced that with the consent of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the National Uniform College Entrance Examination for 2020 (hereinafter referred to as the "Gao Kao") will be postponed for one month, and the examination time will be July 7-8. The test schedule for specific subjects is: July 7th, Language 9:00 to 11:30; Mathematics 15:00 to 17:00. July 8th, Liberal Arts / Science Synthesis 9:00 to 11:30; Foreign Language 15 : 00 to 17:00. Based on the epidemic prevention and control situation, Hubei Province and Beijing City can study and put forward opinions on the timetable for college entrance examinations in the region, and the Ministry of Commerce and Education will release them to the society in a timely manner after consent.
On April 12, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission announced that the 2020 Beijing college entrance examination will be from July 7 to 10, 2020, of which July 7 to 8 will be the national unified college entrance examination time, and July 9 to 10 will be ordinary High school grade level examination time.
On April 20, according to the official website of the Hubei Provincial People's Government, Hubei Province's 2020 college entrance examination time is July 7-8. The test schedule for specific subjects is consistent with the whole country.
In addition to the impact of the college entrance examination, postgraduate re-examinations, English CET-4 and CET exams, martial arts and traditional national sports enrollment have also been adjusted, and relevant departments have given full consideration to ensuring the safety and health of candidates and maintaining fair and equitable examinations.
College entrance examination postponement realistic options
Ensure the safety and health of teachers and students
Wang Hui, director of the Department of Student Affairs of the Ministry of Education, said that the lives of the majority of candidates and test takers are effectively guaranteed. At present, the spread of local epidemic outbreaks across the country has been basically blocked, but the risk of sporadic cases and local outbreaks still exists. Overseas epidemic outbreaks are accelerating and spreading, and the pressure to import epidemic outbreaks in China continues to increase. Health and epidemic prevention experts believe that if the college entrance examination is postponed for one month, the risk of epidemic prevention and control is relatively smaller. The college entrance examination is a large-scale selective examination involving tens of millions of candidates. It must adhere to health first, adopt the safest and least risky program, and effectively protect the life safety and physical health of the majority of candidates and the staff involved.
Wang Hui also said that the Ministry of Education will guide local governments to strengthen the work in three areas: First, strengthen anti-epidemic measures. Under the special situation of epidemic prevention and control this year, each provincial-level recruitment committee should coordinate the health department to deeply investigate and judge the epidemic situation in early July, formulate detailed standards for epidemic prevention and control work, and effectively strengthen the epidemic prevention measures at all links of the examination organization, and strive to provide candidates Create a safe test environment. The second is to strengthen examination organization management. Strictly standardize the implementation of examination work regulations, implement propositions, paper production, test paper storage, distribution, test application, examination and other aspects of safety measures to ensure that the examination organization is foolproof. The third is to strengthen emergency preparedness. In view of the high temperature weather and natural disasters that may occur in some areas during the college entrance examination, all localities must effectively prepare for heatstroke prevention and cooling and prepare for various plans, and actively carry out disaster weather emergency drills to ensure the safety and smoothness of the college entrance examination.
Yang Hongshan, a professor at the School of Public Administration of Renmin University of China, believes that the extension of the college entrance examination is not only to ensure the fairness of the college entrance examination as much as possible, but also to prevent and control the epidemic situation and ensure the safety and health of candidates. Judging from the development of the epidemic situation, there is still great uncertainty, especially after the global outbreak, the risk of importing foreign epidemic situations needs to be highly valued. In addition, it is also necessary to maintain a high degree of vigilance for asymptomatic patients. These are the key difficulties in the next step of epidemic prevention and control, and will also have an impact on the college entrance examination schedule.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, believes that the one-month extension of the college entrance examination is not an ideal solution for everyone, but a realistic option that takes into account many factors. It is a comprehensive consideration of epidemic prevention and control, student preparation, exam organization, and admissions More appropriate arrangements made after admissions and other links. Different from previous years, all aspects of this year's college entrance examination and enrollment need to be combined with epidemic prevention and control.
"Guarantee the safety and health of candidates and relevant personnel in all links is the first. At present, the domestic epidemic situation is basically stable, but the risk of overseas epidemic situation input is still relatively high, and there are large variables. Therefore, the education department has set aside for Hubei Province and Beijing With greater autonomy, you can make a more appropriate timetable for the college entrance examination based on the actual situation of local epidemic prevention and control. "Chu Zhaohui said.
Yang Hongshan believes that due to the postponement of the college entrance examination, subsequent evaluation, filling in volunteers, enrollment and other work may need to be postponed or compressed. In the information age, many follow-up work for college entrance examinations, such as enrollment, can be done directly through the computer. Information technology can ensure that the follow-up work for college entrance examinations can be carried out efficiently and complete all the work according to the established time points.
Suspended classes during the epidemic cannot be suspended
Online learning varies
After the outbreak, the localities took various measures to arrange candidates to study at home, so as to "suspend classes without stopping."
Sun Jiayi is a senior three student in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. She believes that the postponement of the college entrance examination will not have much impact on herself, but she still hopes to return to school as soon as possible, because "the efficiency of studying in school is higher."
The main difficulty of online teaching lies in the relatively poor network conditions in rural areas. However, according to Sun Jiayi, some time ago, the school has issued a notice to students who have difficulties in network teaching. As long as they apply to the school, the relevant departments will take the initiative to install network equipment to ensure the quality of teaching for all students. In addition, the local education department also carried out the distribution of teaching materials to deliver the teaching materials needed by students to the doorstep.
Ren Shuzhen is a senior three math teacher in a high school in Jiangxi. After the outbreak, her school actively cooperated with the education department to suspend classes without stopping, and organized online teaching very early.
With the improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation, the senior three students of Ren Shuzhen's school have returned to school on April 7.
"My students are more conscious in their studies. Many students have their own review plans. Postponing the start of the school and studying at home should not affect their review quality too much. The most susceptible ones are those whose economic conditions are not Good, students with relatively few learning resources. But for them, postponing the college entrance examination for one month should be able to make up for the impact of the epidemic on the review preparation. "Ren Shuzhen said.
Senior high school teacher Liang Minghua (pseudonym) believes that for all senior three students, it is definitely a good thing to have one month to review, but the students' mentality is very important. During the epidemic prevention and control period, different students have different home review results. Students who are insufficiently prepared in the early stage should seize the opportunity to review well. Students who are relatively solid in the previous stage of the review should not be taken lightly. They should continue to do better. All in all, postponing the college entrance examination is a test of the students' mentality, and we should strive to maintain a normal mind to prepare for the exam.
School students respond positively
Active adjustment method
Wang Hui said that the impact of the epidemic on the candidates, especially those in rural and poor areas, should be minimized. After the outbreak of the epidemic, the start of semesters and the placement of senior high school students at home were delayed, and the preparation for the review of students was generally affected, especially due to the differences in urban and rural online learning conditions. Some rural and poor areas students were more affected by the preparation for the review. It is to ensure fairness and justice. The postponement of the college entrance examination for one month can allow candidates to have a little more time to concentrate on studying in the school according to the teaching plan, thereby maximizing the protection of educational fairness.
Yang Hongshan believes that under the control of the epidemic situation in various places, priority should be given to the protection of senior three students in the process of returning to school so that they can take the lead in returning to school. Especially for students in rural areas and remote areas, because the network has not yet been fully and effectively covered, it is relatively fair to enter the classroom to study, and they can guarantee the quality of their learning as much as possible.
"The postponement of the college entrance examination will cause many factors to change, which will affect the candidates to a certain extent. To maintain the fairness and justice of the college entrance examination, candidates and parents have reflected that the effect of online courses during the period of" suspended and non-stopped "is not as good as that of on-campus learning, especially It has a greater impact on students in areas where the basic conditions are relatively weak, and postponing the college entrance examination is more fair to them. After students return to school to review, the learning effect of different schools will also be different, which may involve education equity. In order to ensure the college entrance examination After the extension of education equity, it is necessary to comprehensively consider the overall effect of the interaction of multiple factors. "Chu Zhaohui said.
Chu Zhaohui believes that the postponement of the college entrance examination will have a certain impact on schools and students, and needs to be dealt with correctly.
He further analyzed that the school could not maintain the rhythm of previous years to tutor students to review. Affected by the epidemic situation, the total amount of time for review preparation this year is less than in previous years, so the study content must be more carefully selected, the time schedule should be more compact and effective, and the learning methods and methods also need to be further adjusted. Strive to allocate more sufficient teachers and more Understand the learning status of each student, and provide more targeted teaching guidance.
"The postponement of the college entrance examination has the greatest impact on candidates. Students with strong self-learning ability will gain more in this month than students with weak self-learning ability. From a psychological point of view, the postponement of the college entrance examination will bring psychological pressure to students. Moderate anxiety is beneficial to To improve the learning effect, excessive anxiety will inevitably weaken the learning effect, so candidates need to exert more subjective initiative, overcome anxiety, think more about how to arrange their learning process, do not always think about how many points the exam will get, and better cope with the delay of the college entrance examination. Possible changes. "Chu Zhaohui said.
Independent determination of the re-examination
Refine responsibility and guarantee fairness
Affected by the epidemic, postgraduate retests have also been adjusted accordingly.
On April 14, the Ministry of Education announced the "Basic Requirements for 2020 National Graduate Admission Examination Candidates to Enter the Re-examination", and issued a notice requesting all admissions units around the country to thoroughly implement the implementation of the general secretary of Jinping regarding the overall promotion of the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. The important speech and important instructional spirit of economic and social development work, on the basis of ensuring safety, fairness and scientificity, do a good job in the re-examination of national postgraduates in 2020.
According to the notice of the Ministry of Education, each enrollment unit shall independently determine the re-examination measures according to local conditions and school conditions. The time for the re-examination shall be considered by the enrollment units in consideration of the local epidemic situation, emergency response level, and re-examination workload. According to the requirements of zoning classification, precise prevention and control, wrong time and peak, and prevention of aggregation, comprehensive research and judgment shall be independently determined. In principle, the retest start time shall not be earlier than April 30. The re-examination method is determined by the admissions unit on the premise of ensuring fairness and operability based on subject characteristics and professional requirements. On-site re-examination, network remote re-examination, off-site on-site re-examination, and entrusting other universities to re-examine are available.
At the same time, it is required to strictly examine the qualifications of candidates, actively use technologies such as "face recognition" and "personal identification", and comprehensively compare the "four" of the "application database", "student qualification database", "population information database" and "candidate exam integrity archives". "Comparative" measures to strengthen the examination and verification of candidates' identity.
It is understood that after the announcement of the national test, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Lanzhou University, Renmin University of China, Sichuan University, Jilin University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University, Tianjin University , Harbin Institute of Technology, Nanjing University, Southeast University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xiamen University, Central South University, Hunan University, Chongqing University, University of Electronic Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, China Agricultural University, Shandong University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, Many colleges and universities including Fudan University have successively announced the re-examination line of the university in 2020.
The voice of “cancelling the re-examination for postgraduate entrance examinations” has appeared before, and the Ministry of Education responded that the re-examination is an important part of the postgraduate entrance examination. The re-examination can effectively examine the professional qualities, scientific research and innovation capabilities and comprehensive qualities of the candidates. An important measure for admission is an important system guarantee for promoting scientific talent selection and improving the quality of enrollment.
Zhang Renhe, vice president of Fudan University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a signed article in Renmin.com that the re-examination is an indispensable part of the selection of graduate students. Its necessity and importance are mainly reflected in the following three aspects: The re-examination is a graduate education attribute Inherent requirements; re-examination is an effective means to comprehensively measure candidates; re-examination is an important manifestation of the autonomy of high-level talent selection in schools.
Zhang Renhe also believes that the current staged results of epidemic prevention and control in China have been further consolidated. Although there is still a lot of pressure to prevent epidemic input, in general, the basic conditions for the selection and reexamination of master students are already available. Schools around the world can choose appropriate methods, such as online re-examination, under the conditions of taking effective protective measures and ensuring the health of teachers and students according to local conditions, organizing re-examination and admission work in a timely manner, and reviewing the epidemic situation for the selection of graduate students. The impact is minimized.
Chu Zhaohui published a signed article in the "Guangming Daily" that power and responsibility need to be equal, and that colleges and universities have greater autonomy to retake the test and need to take greater responsibility accordingly. As a larger responsibility subject in the retesting session, enhancing the sense of responsibility and detailing the responsibility to each team member in the retesting enrollment is a prerequisite for universities to better assume responsibility. Expanding the autonomy of colleges and universities is an appeal that the society has been issuing for many years. Expanding the autonomy of postgraduate re-examination is naturally one of them. Colleges and universities should be keenly aware of the value and significance of this specific change for the better autonomous development of each school. Generally speaking, when recruiting the right students, running a school is half the battle. Whether you can effectively seize and use this opportunity depends entirely on each university. Only when each school considers this change in close connection with its own future development will it be possible to assume responsibility more consciously.
Chu Zhaohui also believes that in order to better take responsibility, it is necessary to adjust the planning of previous years, systematically consider various variables, make a more rigorous and rigorous planning, and proactively design the re-examination content scientifically according to the school's enrollment appeals and corresponding to the growth characteristics of professional talents. .